positive lady characters meme: claire beauchamp + strengths and flaws (requested by anon)

The thing about fantasy is that you have these wonderful, wide parameters within which to explore great themes, but the difficulty is making it believable. To get people really engaged, you also have to bring it down to the ground and make it as truthful and as honest as possible. I always feel that people are very much as they were - you know, we haven’t evolved that much as human beings. We still have the same dreams and hopes and fears and wants. Even though we’ve evolved technologically or in an industrial way, our human spirit is quite similar.

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“Now I have to give you back to him, Mama.” 

The wings will carry your pain away, if you let them.

outlander season 2 {episodes 5-8}

outlander moments season 2 - jamie & claire

Come and let us live my Dear, Let us love and never fear, What the sourest Fathers say: Brightest Sol that dies today Lives again as blithe tomorrow, But if we dark sons of sorrow Set; o then, how long a Night Shuts the Eyes of our short light! Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin to tell A Thousand, and a Hundred, score An Hundred, and a Thousand more, Till another Thousand smother That, and that wipe off another. Thus at last when we have numb’red Many a Thousand, many a Hundred; We’ll confound the reckoning quite, And lose ourselves in wild delight: While our joys so multiply, As shall mock the envious eye.

Come and let us live by Samuel Webbe Jr.

Mrs Graham had warned me not to spend my days chasing a ghost; and so I hadn’t… but now that I was here, the ghosts were starting to chase me.

How do you do it? Finally say goodbye to that one person you loved most in all the world?

Then let amorous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred, and a Thousand more

That day at Craigh na Dun, we said a lot of things, but there’s one thing I didn’t say. Couldn’t. I haven’t for twenty years. But I’m here, and now it’s time. Goodbye Jamie Fraser, my love.

Outlander episodes - 1x07 The Wedding; It was a distraction to be sure, but a welcome one for both of us. He told me his family history, I reciprocated in kind, and we each spent the next several hours drinking and talking and generally getting to know our new spouses for the first time. He was charming. A born storyteller like most Scots. As the hours passed I began to relax, and eventually to enjoy myself. 

“My father kept a journal. He wrote in it every night after supper.”

How was your date? It wasn’t a date.

          Even if I could back through the stones, it’s not my place. My destiny lies on Culloden Moor.